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SS1 Horizon taught us how a human vs mecha battle should be then this season it teaches us how to do a naval battle with city size ship, the sound track is awesome, Adele is awesome, Musashi-sama is awesome, everything is awesome.

SS1 Horizon taught us how a human vs mecha battle should be then this season it teaches us how to do a naval battle with city size ship, the sound track is awesome, Adele is awesome, Musashi-sama is awesome, everything is awesome.

Awwwwwwwwwww, no mention for Phillip!!!! His scene's awesome this episode. Old people are so hotblooded in this series without even trying.

Given the history of Spain and what's coming up next,
1) all the old guys coming to save their "weak" chancellor
2) Phillip recounting his losses from previous war
3) trying to save the country from the current war's aftermath
4) the part where the music cuts and he said that one line to Juana
5) which in contrast to that "lie" from immediately before
all in all were quite tear-jerking (I definitely started seeing water in my eye when reading). He is my favorite character this season cause the things he say are so simple but poignant; he makes for a really great contrast with Toori given how they are so different yet they're both inspiring in their own ways; only quality they share is a "King" can always summon billions of people at a moment notice to die for him.

Funny thing: after the last episode's preview, people thought that this episode would have a special ED with the start of the battle and Juana crying while the credits are rolling, but this is great too.

Matsuura YOU'RE THE BESTEST!!! Sanzingen really kicked ass this episode with all the 3D animation. Aura AND staging-wise this has to be the best in terms of full scale war of this year (and probably the year before too). Everything's so ridiculously compact (it's really starting to show here now especially near the end). If the character has ONE line here they probably said one-two pages or so in the book ... and the fight scenes get even more condensed because imagining all the fleet movement written out in wordsssssss (balancing between full scale warzone and "hero unit" fights, Kawakami bestestttt).

Speaking of which, there was a Chara Hobby event, and Horizon had a stage there. FukuJun as his closing words said that the staff maxed out their effort on the last two episodes**, and has the 4x the materials of other anime. Last time he said something like this (regarding staff effort) was back season 1 for episode 4+5, I don't like to overhype things but after seeing how good this "intro" episode is I think it would be ok to start hyping things now. It's all fighting from here on except for 1 scene + ending iirc.

**there's two version of his line (they're kinda the same, but I opted more to the 2nd version because it's on 2ch and had a really summary of the entire event; first one's reported here)

As the Battle of Armada is finally established (plus the yuri healing kiss which is funny though it has nothing to do with this), looks like the battle between city-sized ships were handled well despite being paused by many talkative moments (in the same the shounen battles are paused by talking for the most, yet I have nothing wrong with them, but I like how they explained a lot because talking and motivations are more important to me despite being stuck with fighting sequences that are awesome) and as Kunagisa said, Phillip saying his last words towards Juana are pretty heart-breaking and tearjerking too, yet the former antagonists at the beginning of the second season were back to fight against Musashi. Also, time to be ready for the next episode !

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I thought there would still be one more episode but IT IS ON NOW! And Team Musashi is in a two way battle fighting Tres Espana over water as well as their own English Allies over Mary. Of the two I'm definitely more excited for the Armada battle, and it looks like all the seemingly unrelated set up with the Tres Espana characters comes together in this.

Also, it wasn't until I saw the radar map that it dawn onto me just how FREAKING HUGE Musashi's ships were The Spanish Armada looks tiny compared to them! The smaller half-elf(?) ships were reduced to dots Adele as Admiral of the Fleet is an interesting choice.

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Also, it wasn't until I saw the radar map that it dawn onto me just how FREAKING HUGE Musashi's ships were The Spanish Armada looks tiny compared to them! The smaller half-elf(?) ships were reduced to dots Adele as Admiral of the Fleet is an interesting choice.

Here, a handy comparison for the true size of Musashi. It makes the Enterprise look small. Don't forget, it is almost as long as Mt Everest is tall.

It is actually impossible to imagine it. Just think; if you stand on one edge of the ship, you would not be able to see the opposite end.

 Total Length (from the front end of Shinagawa to the rear end of Takao, or from the front end of Asakusa to the rear end of Oume) - 7356 m
 Width (from starboard side of one ship to the port side of the ship on the opposite side) - 2076 m
 Height (from beam to lowest point in the hull) - 863 m

 Total Length (from the front end of Shinagawa to the rear end of Takao, or from the front end of Asakusa to the rear end of Oume) - 7356 m
 Width (from starboard side of one ship to the port side of the ship on the opposite side) - 2076 m
 Height (from beam to lowest point in the hull) - 863 m

Its hard to believe that the Musashi I see in the anime was that big... Keeping a huge ship with that weight will drain a lot of fuel...

*Thank God, the Empire's Ship is bigger... I love that ship...

In the Horizon world anti-gravity is relatively easy to do due to a change in law of physics from the prequel incident. They also have a way to turn matter into energy in the form of ether. None the less, that still doesn't change the fact that Musashi is one of the largest vessels in their world, even though it isn't designed for war.

True. But still... Musashi's size based in actual data is visually unconvincing when viewed.. I rechecked the scenes from last seasons and I thought its half of the actual size.. hehehe

That's because there was nothing to compare it to. You never actually see it compared to a human, for example, because as soon as you zoom out enough to see the ship itself, the human would have vanished from view. The only thing you could have visualise was the small barge that crashed at the end of the 2nd season ep 2.

7 kilometres is hard to imagine. This is why being at the back of the ship, Futayo was unable to help those who are being attacked by the British at the front end. The fight was going to only last 7 minutes at best, so there was actually no way for her to help because she can't get there in time.